Alien Bees: How do I use my lights?

[erinaudry]

Straight up, I am a photography NOOB. I just purchased my first set of lights and am confused as to what is the purpose of my umbrellas and how to use them! I have tested them out and I seem to be using them wrong.

I purchased the Alien Bees Digibee package which came with 2 umbrellas: One translucent white shoot thru umbrella, and one silver white umbrella.

How do I use these properly!?

[brucep]

Welcome to the Photozo, Erin! You caught us in the middle of "moving," but I see our Search button (above) works. You can click on itd and type in Studio Lighting, or whatever you're interested in and find a wealth of information. One of the best threads there is this one about lighting the head shot:
http://www.photozo.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2898&highlight=

Here's another link I posted in an previous thread:
http://forum.montezucker.com/index.p...99e6058c8961e4

You've come to a wonderful forum where you'll find the answer to most of your photographic questions. None of us knows everything, but together I hope you'll find us very helpful. Soon you'll find you've learned enough to help others, too.

[brucep]

Welcome to the Photozo, Erin! You caught us in the middle of "moving," but I see our Search button (above) works. You can click on it and type in Studio Lighting, or whatever you're interested in and find a wealth of information. One of the best threads there is this one about lighting the head shot:
http://www.photozo.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2898&highlight=

Here's another link I posted in an previous thread:
http://forum.montezucker.com/index.p...99e6058c8961e4

You've come to a wonderful forum where you'll find the answer to most of your photographic questions. None of us knows everything, but together I hope you'll find us very helpful. Soon you'll find you've learned enough to help others, too.

[streetpics]

hi erin, feel free to call alien bees also, they have been very helpful with customer service in the past, but it is confusing stuff, don't get discouraged.

[l1lm1k3]

Here is another question what type of camera do you have ? Next question can you hook your lights to it without having to have a hot shoe adapter.

Like mentioned above dont get discouraged Im just now really starting to see that my older photos were a lil hot so im making adjustments and i keep moving forward